To: george76
Clever of that BLS to omit food and energy from the CPI basket of goods, because those measures “too volatile.” Not that anybody needs food or energy to live, so why include them in the core inflation numbers?
16 posted on
06/20/2014 9:39:23 PM PDT by
kevao
(Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
To: kevao
18 posted on
06/20/2014 9:43:22 PM PDT by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: kevao
Clever of that BLS to omit food and energy from the CPI basket of goods, because those measures “too volatile.” Not that anybody needs food or energy to live, so why include them in the core inflation numbers?
Also rather neat that core inflation is one of the main tools used by the Fed to measure how well they are doing. /sarc
38 posted on
06/21/2014 2:11:00 AM PDT by
khelus
To: kevao
Clever of that BLS to omit food and energy from the CPI basket of goods, because those measures “too volatile.” Funny how food and fuel only seem to "volatile" in an upward direction.
41 posted on
06/21/2014 4:00:07 AM PDT by
Flick Lives
("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
To: kevao
Clever of that BLS to omit food and energy from the CPI basket of goods, because those measures “too volatile.”Indeed, they conveniently forget that they could use a "moving average" which would, at least, give some kind of indication.
62 posted on
06/21/2014 10:21:54 AM PDT by
Oatka
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